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The Kindergarten Teacher

as Nikhil Roy

2018
3 Days of Normal

as Vik Donowitz

2012
Hotel for Dogs

as ACO Jake

2009
Falling Up

as

2009
Today's Special

as Munnamia

2009
The Wrestler

as

2008
Loins of Punjab Presents

as Turbanotorious B.D.G.

2007
Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?

as Prince Omar (voice)

2005
The Honeymooners

as Vivek

2005
The War Within

as Naved

2005
Bad Santa

as Hindustani Troublemaker

2003
K-PAX

as Dr. Chakaraborty

2001
Office Space

as Samir Nagheenanajar

1999
Pi

as Farroukh

1998
SubUrbia

as Nazeer Choudhury

1997
Touch and Go

as Louis DeLeon

1986
Ajay Naidu Ajay Naidu

Birthday

1972-02-12

Place of Birth

Evanston, Illinois, USA

Biography

Ajay Kalahastri Naidu (born 12 February 1972) is an American actor. Naidu was born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Chicago, the son of Indian immigrants from Chittor District, Andhra Pradesh to the U.S. He attended Evanston Township High School. As an actor, he trained with the American Repertory Theater's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. His first professional acting job was the film Touch and Go (released in 1986) which he won from an open call, this in turn led to television jobs.He starred in the TV-movie, Lady Blue (1985) as "Paquito". This was followed by an ABC Afterschool Special episode, "No Greater Gift" (1985), where he played "Nick Santana", a 12-year old boy with a terminal illness. He then appeared in an uncredited role as "Ahmed" in the "MacGyver" TV series, during the first season, in episode, "To Be a Man" in 1986. Other film credits when younger include Where the River Runs Black (1986) and Vice Versa (1988). Between 1988 and 1995 he worked extensively in classical theatre. He returned to film acting in SubUrbia (1996), where he was praised for his role as the convenience store owner, "Nazeer Choudhury" and for which he was nominated for an independent spirit award for best supporting actor. On screen, Naidu has appeared in the film Office Space, as well as K-Pax, π, Requiem for a Dream, Bad Santa, The War Within, American Chai, The Guru, Waterborne and Loins of Punjab Presents and many more. He co-starred in the sitcom LateLine and had guest starring roles on the television dramas The Sopranos, in the episode entitled Big Girls Don't Cry, as well as The West Wing. In 1997, Naidu was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his role in the independent film subUrbia. Naidu has been working extensively with musicians from the Asian underground music movement for many years and his vocals have appeared on many records most notably Talvin Singh's mercury award winner "OK". In 2006 he directed his first feature film Ashes which came out in 2010. His most recent Theatre credits include A world tour of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure with Simon McBurney's Theatre Complicite, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui alongside Al Pacino, and The Little Flower of East Orange at New York's Public Theater. He is currently engaged to actress Heather Burns. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ajay Naidu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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